Okay, I just got a used HP pavilion model # 8665c, its a little old school, but I put a good dvd burner in it, and I bought a 128G hard drive and installed it but I cant make it the master, it keeps reading the original drive, but the new drive comes up. I also installed my windows xp home on it. I just wanted some advice, like how much memory is in it, how much I can put in it, get it running fast, ect... Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
umm some info in the processor would help a bit dude and the board. But i would suggest taking out the original drive and checking its settings. If you want to be really lazy like me use the cable select feature. This will allow you to determine master and slave through the cable rather than the jumper setting or you can manually configure them. You may get better performance running xp off the smaller drive anyways or you could just take the existing data on it and "transplant" it into the bigger drive using a new install of xp? Also Xp pro is far better than Home. As for Ram most users find about 512mb adequate anything more wont really be noticable
read this link before buying any ram. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/..._page=prodinfoCategory&cc=ca&docname=bph05440
